Investment opportunities

Small Economic Zone Bjeliš will be built inside town-planning defined Industrial zone Bjeliš, on town-planning foreseen area (GUP general town-planning scheme of Slavonski Brod). With complete infrastructural equipment Zone will be ready to accept numerous entrepreneurs-investors who would, by constructing their own production-business buildings, materialize their entrepreneurs' initiative for strengthening and developing their own trades or companies.

The main purpose of the Investment guide is to animate potential investors to invest in Slavonski Brod. This document aims at emphasizing advantages and chances of investing in Slavonski Brod and accordingly of doing business in the spoken area.

The incentive measures regulated by the Investment Promotion Act apply to investment projects

This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Croatia. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. The data in this report are current as of June 1, 2012 (except for the paying taxes indicators, which cover the period January-December 2011).

Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

This page contains an overview of regulations according to the mentioned groups. The regulations concerning taxes can be viewed (in an easy-to-navigate way) in the following ways

Contractual relations between the Republic of Croatia and the European Union were established for the first time by signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement in 2001. This Agreement enabled the beginning of the negotiations for full EU membership in 2005. According to the President of the European Commission, Croatia has completed the membership negotiatios and the excpected date of accession is July 1st, 2013.

The city developed at the strategically important crossing over the Sava river towards Brod in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is an important intersection of the Posavina part of the highway and a railway junction, since it is located on the highway linking Zagreb-Lipovac-Belgrade (E70, A3) and the Zagreb-Vinkovci-Belgrade railway.

Small economic zone Kolonija is built on the terrain of surface 32.764 m2 that is planned by the General urban plan of Slavonski Brod for the construction of economic buildings, mostly intended for industry.

The policy to achieve a high growth rate is reflected in the legislative and regulatory environment governing the investment climate in Croatia. The Investment Promotion Act and the Regulation on Investment Incentives, are of particular importance in this context.

Croatia is located in South-eastern Europe between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia, and bordering the Adriatic Sea. It lies between latitudes 42° and 47° N, and longitudes 13° and 20° E.

Slavonski Brod is situated in the East of Croatia - Slavonia region. It is the center of Brodsko - Posavska County, one of the six Slavonian counties. The city covers an area of over 50.14 km2, with its population of 64,611 people.

The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.